[COLUG] Ubuntu Packages

[Duane]

Mark Erbaugh wrote:
> I would like to upgrade the version of Ghostscript that was installed
> with Ubuntu Dapper (8.15.2 ESP).  I believe I need to do this to install
> an updated version of gutenprint, which has support for my printer.
> 
> I've downloaded and built the latest version 8.61 GPL of Ghostscript,
> but I can't install using dpkg it as it complains that one of the files
> it wants to replace is used by the package gs-esp. I suspect that it is
> just one of many file that are used, it's just the first one it found.

I usually stick deb-src lines in apt.conf for gutsy or whatever version
you are trying to install then I do...

apt-get source <package name>
apt-get build-dep <package name>
cd <package name>-<version>
debuild -us -uc
dpkg -i ../<package name>-<version>.deb

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 Duane

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